The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1911 Page: 3 of 12
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A BANK FOR ALL THE PEOPLE.
It is not a particular class of people for wbioh this
>>ank was organized. It is not here for the receiving
of certain amounts on de|>osit as a minimum. It is
a hank for all the people and it is conducted -in the
1 iitei ewt of those people, and not for the accoitiino'
dation of certain individuals. We want you to feel
at home with us. We waul you to come in when*
ever you can and take advantage of all the facilities
we have to offer. But if you do not tind it con-
veuient to come to the hank, then use the mails for
transacting vour business. Correspondence receives
careful attention and your deposit will be just as
well handled as it would be if you came to the bank
personally
THE CONROE BANK
Unincorporated
CONROE, TEXAS.
Fair Premiums
A complete list of the premiums
awarded by the Montgomery County
Fair Association was slow in reaching
the Courier office. Last week we pub-
lished two departments, Fancy Work,
and Poultry—all we could get hold of
up to that time. Since then, however,
we have received the complete list.
The lists formerly printed are omitted
from these lists:
HORSES
Best pair farm mules, J. S. Hulon.
Heaviest draft horse, F. M. Rabon.
r Standard bred stallion, "Judge
Hurt," owned by Smith & Anderson,
gold medal.
Light draft stallion, "Gus Stowe,"
Ed Stewart, gold medal.
Standard bred mare, J. S. Norris’
4 ‘Lady Joe, ’ ’ gold medal.
Standard bred colt, J. S. Norris.
Best driving horse, E. A. Smith.
Best colt with saddle gait, Judge
Rucks.
Best two-yei r old colt, E. A. Smith.
Best two-year-old colt, with driver,
Best saddle ‘horse, Dr. J. M. Smith."
Best colt, H. D. Radley.
Second best colt, Albert Johnson.
Best two-year-old mule, T. H. Ham-
mond.
CATTLE
Registered Jersey bull, T. C. Hill,
gold medal.
Registered Jersey cow, G. F. Tad-
lock, gold medal.
Registered Jersey bull one year old,
G. F. Tadlock, gold medal.
Largest beef, Fred Peters.
SWINE
Best Poland China Boar, G. E. Wood-
ard.
Best Poland China sow, M. A. Ander-
son. 2nd best, Chas. Driggers.
Best Poland China boar under one
year old, J. S. Norria.
Best Poland China gilt, Dr. J. M.
Smith.
Best pair O. I. C. hogs, M. A.
Anderson,
Best Duroc-J ersev gilt, G. E. Wood;
ard.
Best P. C. boar eight months old, M.
A. Anderson.
Best P. C. gilt eight months old, M.
A. Anderson.
Best Duroc-Jersey boar, G. E.
Woodard. Second best, B. E. Ciuxton.
AGRICULTURE
Best ten ears corn, L. B. Waldon.
Second beat, S. A, McCalL
Best bushel com, no prize* D. H.
Clanton. Second beat, E. B. Stewart.
Largest peanuts, J. B. Long. See-
ond, Marion Dean.
Half bushel sweet potatoes, John
Runnels. Second, John Runnels.
Sugar cane W. B. Ross.
Tobacco display, W. S. Jackson.
Second best, J.'D. Nevil and sons.
Pumpkins. Mrs. W. F. Spiller.
Turnips, Mrs. J. M. Smith.
Best farm exhibit, John Runnels.
Second best, W. J. Hulon. Third best,
W. H. Driggers.
Small peanuts (removed before
credit was given.) Second, H. W.
Swaim. • *
Pail Irish potatoes, Dsn McGill (no
prize less than half bushel).
HOUSEHOLD
Bread, Mrs. Beauchamp, 1st; Mrs.
England, second.
Blackberry preserves. Miss Elis
Hulon. 1st; Mrs. J.S. Hulon,
Canned peat has, Miss El
1st; Mrs. J 1. Hulon. 2nd.
PrsservaJ peaches
Fig preserves, Mrs. S. A. Crawford,
1st; Mrs. D. M. Field, 2rjd.
Strawberry preserves, Mrs. S. A.
Crawford.
Plum jelly, Mrs. S. A. Crawford.
White cake, Mra. W. S. Jackson.
Yellow cake, Mrs. J. S. England.
Pound butter, Mrs. J. A. Runnels,
1st; Mra. D. E. Gooden, 2nd.
Cucumber pickles, Mrs, G. I. Dean,
1st and 2nd.
Pear preserves. Mrs. G. I. Dean, 1st;
Mrs. F. A. Young, 2nd.
The following exhibits deserve hon-
orable mention and noton list of prizes;
Beet pickles. 1st, Mtes Mildred
Powell; 2nd, Mrs. P. Napper.
cauliflower pickles, Miss Mildred
Powell.
Canned pears. Mrs, G. I. Dean.
Apple jelly, Mrs. F. A. Young.
Chow chow, Miss Mildred Powell, 1st;
Mrs. G. I. Dean, 2nd.
SPECIAL PRIZED
A list of prizes awarded to the Boys’
Corn Club, and also those awarded by
the special horse owners will appear
subsequently.
Dog Day*.
Dog days Is the name applied to
the heated season of the year at the
time of the heliacal rising of Sirlua,
the dog star; that la, the time when
it rose fust before the sun. They usu-
ally lasted for about 46 days. We
still retain the expreeslon of dog days
•as applied to the hottest season of tbs
year, but owing to the procession of
ths equinoxes it is no longer the time
of the heliacal rising of the dog star.
Originally Color Bearers.
Ensign is a word formed on the
Idea of the display of insignia, badge
or device and was formerly much
used where we now employ the word,
colors. The company officers in a
regiment who were, until late years,
termed eusigpa were, at a still earlier
period, more correctly turned "ensign
bearers."
An Early Award.
"Do yon think there is anything
creditable in that man Skinnum’s
past?” "Well," replied the discreet
man, "I understand that somewhere
among his effects he has a mug with
the sentence ‘For a Good Boy’ printed
on in gilt letters. But, of course, I
hare no way of knowing how he came
by if
Youth Never to Be Recalled.
A man has a shrewd suspicion that
age has overtaken him when he keeps
assuring yon that he feels as young
as aver—and he doesn't know but—
younger. Poor fellow, he whistles to
keep his courage up; but, alas! he
cannot recall youth as he his
pointer—with a whistle.
The Canine Howfology.
There is nothing so very remark-
able in the Atlantic City dog that can
tell time. Every dog on earth can
tell time. That Is, they can tell break-
fast time, dinner time and supper
time, and know to a minute when it la
time to start their nightly howl. * '
INEY VAUL”
UNCLE PAM'S ROCKETS ARE
BULGING WITH COIN.
ItllMMI
Many Days for Public Worship.
By different nations every day la
the week is set apart for public wor-
ship—Bunfey by the Christiana. Mon-
day by' the Greeks, Tuesday by the
Parsleas. Wednesday by the Assy-
rian#, Thursday by the Egyptians, Fri-
day by the Turks, nod Saturday by
the Jews
Af Antes ref's Reieaetlee.
Great Storehouse of the National
Treasury at Washington Is New
Fairly Overflowing With
Gold end Silver.
Uncle Sam’s pockets ere bulging
wttb the coin of the realm, and
{ilfi storehouse in
the capital is
fairly overflowing
with gold and sti-
ver. The treas-
ury at Washing-
ton, which covers
two entire city
blocks. is too
small to pack
away the vast
amounts of gold,
silver and green-
backs. And. to
properly safe-
guard his treasure, a~ finally,
compelled to build five more large
vaulta, which have juat been com-
pleted, In addition to the eight Im-
mense vaults containing billions of
dollars In gold, silver, greenbacks
and securities, and several smaller
safe-vaults In use In the treasury for
years past
These five new vaults were con-
structed on the west side of the
treasury building. The old steep
roadway was removed and lowered
at the same time to permit of the
handling of all kinds of money in,
bulk, direct from the treasure wagons
to the vaulta.
The new vaultp are wonderful In
their Intricate construction. They are
surrounded by thousands of highly-
charged electrlo wires imbedded In
solid concrete, any one of which will
rive an alarm Instantly If touched
by any person not Intrusted with the
secret combination. One of the
new money vaults has been built in
the sub-basement, and the other four,
in the basement itself. Each vault
is about twenty-live feet wide by thir-
ty feet long, and all five are built of
reinforced concrete four and a half
feet thick and strong In proportion.
The vaults are aa nearly burglar-
proof as human Ingenuity can make
them.
All the money vaults in the treas-
ury are under the direct control of
Lee McClung, the treasurer of the
United States. Mr. McClung succeed-
ed Charles H. Treat In 1908. Frank
J. F. Thiel is private secretary to
the treasurer, and la Mr. McClung's
right-hand man. He has been with
the government for the pest six years
and during this time made a thor-
ough study of the government
finances. The writer is much in-
debted to Mr. Thiel for valuable data
collected by him for uae in this
story-
The financial transactions of the
government are conducted on a scale
of such magnitude as to seem almost
incredible. For Instance, during the
period of IS years from 1897 to June
SO, 1910, the accounts settled in tbe
office of the auditor for the treasury
department aggregated the immense
sum of $68,181,000,000, an average of
nearly $6,250,000,000 a year. This
vast sum embraces the income and ex-
penditure of tbe government, the is-
sue, redemption and exchange of cur-
rency, accounts of mints and assay
offices, customs and those relating to
the postal service, the revenues of
which for tbe fiscal year ending June
30, 1909, amounted to $203,662,38S.07,
and the expenditures $221,004,102.89,
It is not generally known that the
United States today holda the largest
•lock of gold of any nation in the
world. Tbe amount of gold in the
United States Is more than three
times as large as that of Great
Britain and France, Great* Britain
and Germany, or Gbeat Britain and
Russia combined.
If the country's stock of 564,604.719
■liver dollars wet* loaded lato freight
cars of 60,000 pounds, or 30 tons’ ca-
pacity, it would require more than
US cars to carry them. If these same
silver dollara could be laid flat, one
on top of the other, they would make
a monument 835 miles high. If plaeed
end to end they would make a hand-
some "necklace" 18450 miles in
length. Or they would make a belt
that would extend more than half-
way around the world.
One thousand dollar* in new gold
coins weighs 8.68 pounds. Uncle
flam's stock of gold, therefore, is
equivalent to about *409 tons, whisk
would require n trais of t#0 ears to
carry It, each car bsvtng n carrying
\sparity of more than 60,000 pounds
Feetiasl Age •# Warns*
A I’hiiadtlpMa pepor affirms Uu4
whe* Ikey begin In Info
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OUR MOTTO.
“It is better to be safe than sorry."
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Place your money in the
First State Bank where
every Dollar of the non-interest
bearing and unsecured deposits
are protected by the Depositors’
Guarantee Fund of the State of
Texas. Your Patronage will be
appreciated; your welfare will
be looked after, and every fa-
cility of an up-to-date Bank
placed at your disposal.
Try us once and you will
come back again. v
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First State Bank
Conroe, Texas.
For BONDS
Fidelity, Contractors' Fiduciary of all kind*, Public
Officials’ or Licensees’.
For INSURANCE
All kinds of Causualty Insurance. Sick or accident
Benefits and Accidental Death.
M. E. STEVENS.
District Manager for
COMMONWEALTH BONDING AND
CAUSALTY CO., Fort Worth, Te*as.
A reverend Scotchman was going tg
hold forth to an open-air meeting. He
sat down on a bank In which them
was an ant's nest; the Insects soon
found their way Into his "Oh, no, wn
never mention ’em’i,” and he said:
’’Brethren, though I hope I have the
word of God In my mouth, I think the|
deel has got into my breaks."—Ex-
change.
Big Combination.
A story is told of an American who,
visiting in Dublin, was conducted to
the cathedral which had been restored
by the Guinnsss family of brewers,
then to the schools which they bad
built, and lastly to the great brewery.
"This la really wonderful," said tbe
Yankee. "You seem to run education,
salvation and damnation all in one
show."
Work snd Praysr.
Work with all your might; but trust
not in tbe least in your work. 1 Pray
with all your might for the blessing
of Ood; but work, at the asms time,
with all diligence, with all patience,
with all perseverance. Pray, then,
and work. Work and pray, And still
again pray and work, snd this all ths
days of your Ilfs.—George Muller..
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War-Time Prices Outdistanced.
It its no longer necessary to bark
back to war times as an era of ex«
ceptionally high prices. A Wash-
ngton antiquarian has been at the
trouble to dig up a list of war-
time prices and compare them with
Payne-Aldrich tariff prices at the
present time, as follows:
WAR TIME ARTICLE PRESENT TIME
•4.10...........Bbl. flour 67.7b
14c lb.......Hams______20c to 28c
8c to 12c lb..Lard. 1.....11c to 16c
14c..........Cheese.....25c to 36c
10c to 18c...Sugar______ 5cto 8c
6 1-2c lb-----Beef....... 16c
5c lb....... Shoulders.. 20c
13c to 16c lb.Coffee......20c to 40c •
Weed far Salt
Oak wood, cook or heater. 8ee
Walter Roberson. 061-2t
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Hew to De It.
Kenneth was trying to writs the1
word "tres,w says ths Chicago koeord-
He haew how to make the
two letisrs, but eeuld net ro-
bot Iho ‘oe " Hmoetl, taro y-ars
t, SA4 Who li food or hosting os*
Wanted
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TWENTY MILLION
FEET OF PINE
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The Conroe Courier. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1911, newspaper, November 24, 1911; Conroe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth844099/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Montgomery County Memorial Library.